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declare if there be any ambiguity in his e xplosions : * ' How much I have been made an instance must needs be too notorious to any that holds the least intelligence with common fame , that scarce ever book took more pains to make the proverb good by proving himself a liar , han in niv concern , who have been most
eirrvgiously slandered , reviled and defamed , by pulpit , press and talk , terming me a blasphemer , Socinian , denying the divinity of Christ , the Saviour , and what not , and all this about my late answer to a disputation with some Presbyterians , but how unjustlyy it is the business of this short Apology to shew . "
Now 1 think it must be allowed that the publication of the " Sandy Foundation Shaken , " by Unitarians , without taking the least notice of William Perm's vindication , or of his Open and unequivocal avowal of a doctrine totally opposite
or of his declaration of the injustice in terming him a Socinian , and a denier of the divinity of Christ , is at once disingenuous and unjust , and a departure from that principle which teaches us " to do as we would be done by . "
We are averse to discussions of this nature , from a belief that they do not generally promote vital religion ; yet in entering into this subject , we trust we have not been influenced by any unchristian disposition , but with unfeigned good-will
towards thyself ; and most sincerely do we wish that in this important point , as in every other , thou mayest be guided by the spirit of truth into all truth . ^^
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On Congregational Schools , 273
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On Congregational Schools , and Considerations to what extent the Mind * of the Labouring' Classes may be advantageousl y cuItwated ' . Sir , March 27 , 1822 . WHEN a religious society united formerl y in a contribution for educating that class of their community who might otherwise have remained wholly untaught , the distinct
*» u bpecinc objects were unquestionabl y to instruct the boys in reading a writing , with a slight knowledge ° f numbers , and the education of the gins was confined to needle-work and reucW . and when their funds ena-111 A . . \
"wwcm to do so , the benefit to the wiiiareii Wils increaseu l ) y R ifts of ^ "iing-, iu * i occasionally a dinner w provided for them . he same necessity for these schools dn now be deemed so immediate t , ley Wer ^ before the general esta-¦^ shment of the national srlwmls .
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which , admitting all denominations of the poor to the above advantages , adds that of greater promptitude and a more lively attention , ( perhaps from the emulation induced by numbers
learning together , than can be well attained among a smaller number , even where the same plan is adopted , ) as is generally observed by those who compare the National with the Congregational Schools .
If , then , the Congregational Schools have no further object than the simply instructing children in reading , writing , arithmetic and needle-work , it becomes a question why the societies incur the expense of these establishments , when there are others at least equally efficacious of comparatively no
expense . Female education having most occupied my attention , I shall confine my observations particularly to the degree of instruction which girls now receive in these schools . I learn that the
object in view is to make good houseservants of them . On visiting their school-rooms , with this impression , I find that sitting at needle-work occupies most of their time , and that in knowledge they attain as much as just enables them to read mechanically a
chapter in the Bible , and some of them add to this a little of writing and arithmetic . The girls also scour and clean their school-room , & < - \ , and thus acquire a little more activity than they otherwise would ; yet , perhaps , not
sufficient to compensate for the sedentary mode in which they spend the rest of their time during the most important period of their lives , as relates to health and habitual activity . The funds are frequently insufficient to maintain the establishment without
considerable aid from the work done in it , and in consequence it is often observable that more vigilance is exerted in getting work completed to be sent home , after being entrusted only
to a few who are qualified for the nicety it may require , than care in instructing those who require immediate superintendence . By degrees , perhaps , a good knowledge of shirtmakinsr is attained : and at fourteen , , a
girl whose last six or seven years have been devoted to the purpose , quits the school able to execute plain work promptly and neatly , but without having been taught , what would most likely
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/17/
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